There’s a line in the movie Spaceballs delivered by Rick Moranis playing the role of Dark Helmet that I always come back to — “Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb.” That’s kinda how I feel after reading the latest update on the transfer of Savinho from Manchester City to Tottenham Hotspur. Balague is reporting now that City have decided NOT to sell Savinho, ostensibly because there no longer appears to be a path for City to purchase Rodrygo from Real Madrid.
Carty Free founder Kim McCauley said something in Carty Free chat just now in the immediate wake of this news that makes a lot of sense — the only way this transfer from City to Spurs makes a lick of sense is if City replaces Savinho with someone better (i.e. Rodrygo) and there’s been almost zero reporting of any willingness of Madrid to sell to City. The suggestion I’m getting is that Rodrygo simply doesn’t want to leave. The replacement has to be interested in coming to City for Madrid to justify selling one of their prize young assets.
Now, Balague has plenty of contacts but if this is the case I’d expect we’ll see confirmation of this from David Ornstein or Fab Romano here before too long. Seems like a pretty huge story that could have massive implications on everyone involved, so… let’s hope Guillem is just wrong.
But if he isn’t, that really really REALLY changes the calculus for Spurs in what remains of the window. I have to say that even with potentially signing Eze I am not very impressed with this transfer window unless Spurs are able to get a top-tier attacker like Savinho in. Kudus is good and Eze will help, but it’s not a transformational window and a LOT then hinges on players staying healthy and Thomas Frank able to get a tune out of the same players that mostly underachieved under Ange Postecoglou.
Anyway, this sucks, Beavis.
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